Chuck Lorre Has Sold Another Mediocre Sitcom To CBS

Before dealing with topics and key demographics, a.k.a “people,” as diverse as douchebags (Two and a Half Men), nerds (The Big Bang Theory), the obese (Mike and Molly), and Charlie Sheen on a cocaine high (real life), Chuck Lorre was the voice of a single mom generation, having created Cybill and Grace Under Fire, two shows everyone knows, but knows nothing about. Cybill‘s the one where everyone dies, right? I’ll assume yes.

He’ll return to his flower print shirt roots in 2013, though, with a new sitcom called simply, maddeningly Mom.

Comedy king Chuck Lorre is expanding his relationship with CBS with a new half-hour project, which is instantly becoming a top prospect for the network’s fall 2013 schedule. The network has given a pilot production order to Mom, a multi-camera comedy from Lorre, who…co-wrote [the series] on spec with two members of his Two and a Half Men team, executive producer Eddie Gorodetsky and story editor Gemma Baker. Mom centers on a newly sober single mom tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley. (Via)

And thus, the Chuck Lorre “ladies be divorcing” trilogy came to its inevitable conclusion, not with a bang or a whimper, but with an ironic premise (OMGZ SHE’S A DRUNK BUT LIVES IN WINE COUNTRY) and jokes about how just like wine, “this separated mom only gets finer with age,” probably.

Born in Providence, R.I., Mr. Gorodetsky was attending Boston’s Emerson College in the late 1970s when he began to make a name for himself. With a gift for gab and his already-amazing record collection, he became a DJ at WBCN, Boston’s legendary free-form underground radio station.

I find it shocking and offensive that you’re willing to go ahead declare a show “mediocre” when you haven’t seen even seen a single second of said show. I think it needs to be given a fair shot before you label it. I mean, how do you know it will be mediocre? It could very well flat out suck.

Chuck Lorre has to be concerned about what will happen when we get a rating system for TV that reflects what people actually watch and they realize that the whole audience for these shows is old people and morons.

True, but they only have money until the old people die. Meanwhile, every network show gets dumber and dumber until their viewers leave for cable/streaming/reading books/3d porn/bath salts/honey boo boo.

So Chuck Lorre isn’t comfortable with just insulting our intelligence by having Miley Cyrus replace Jake and Ashton Kutcher replace Charlie and Kathy Bates play Charlie’s Ghost and acting like everything is okay with Two and a Half Men. No…he has to have ANOTHER intelligence insulting sitcom. Charlie Sheen was right about him.